User:AdaWoolf/Wikipedia contributions

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My Contributions

I have researched and created 40 articles from scratch. These articles include 29 biographies of notable women, and

Medical women

I first discovered Elizabeth Turner's name on the Women in Red Redlist index, and began researching her contributions to medicine in Australia. This sparked my interest in the history of women in medicine particularly those from Victoria, Australia. Throughout the 19th and 20ths centuries many trailblazing women made significant contributions to the medical field while facing substantial barriers due to their gender.

First women to enrol in medicine at the University of Melbourne

Around the world, women campaigned for the right to study medicine in institutions previously reserved for men. In the 1880s Constance Stone was refused entry into the University of Melbourne's medical school due to her gender, so she travelled abroad and qualified as a physician in the USA. When she returned in 1890 she became the first woman to register as a physician in Australia. In 1887, a few years before her return her sister Clara Stone and six other women Helen Sexton, Lilian Alexander, Grace Vale, Margaret Whyte, and sisters Elizabeth and Annie O'Hara mounted a sustained and ultimately successful campaign to gain the right to enrol in medicine at University of Melbourne. Despite their achievements Whyte and the O'Hara sisters has no visibility on Wikipedia, so I created pages for them.

After paving the way for women to become doctors these women faced further challenges in gaining positions and recognition in the male-dominated profession. In response Constance Stone, and the University of Melbourne graduates formed the Victorian Medical Women's Society to support each other in their studies and careers. Several were later involved in founding the Queen Victoria Hospital, Melbourne, a hospital 'by women, for women', in 1899.

The Queen Victoria Hospital Wikipedia page had been a redirect page to the Queen Victoria Village, which is a shopping complex that was built on the site of the hospital. I reclaimed the redirect and created a dedicated article to document the hospital's historical significant as an institution for women seeking medical treatment, as well as an essential training women physicians.

Created Biographies

• Elizabeth Kathleen Turner – Australian physician (1914–1999)
• Lorna Verdun Sisely – Australian surgeon (1916–2004)
• Margaret Whyte (medical doctor) – Australian medical doctor (1868-1946)
• Elizabeth O'Hara (medical doctor) – Australian medical doctor (1866-1942)
• Annie O'Hara – Australian medical doctor (1869-1897)
• Girlie Hodges – Australian surgeon and field hockey player (1904-1999)
• Estelle Venner Keogh – Australian nurse (1892–1966)
• May Yarrowick – Australian mid-wife and nurse (1876–1949)
• Nora Kathleen Fletcher – Australian nurse (1880–1976)

Selected articles on this topic that I substantially edited

• Queen Victoria Hospital, Melbourne – Hospital in Melbourne, Australia, (1896–1987)
• Isabel Ormiston – Australian medical doctor (1883–1958)
• Helen Sexton – Australian surgeon (1862–1950)
• Victorian Medical Women's Society – Australian association of medical practitioners since 1895

Women of World War I

My research into women in medicine, soon led me to explore the roles of Australian women in World War I. When I first read this page in early 2024 it was a short C class page. It stated that Australian women in World War I were primarily focussed on nursing or assisting via the home front, and briefly mentioned a few anti-war activists. While this information was generally accurate and well sourced, the page was lacked important context regarding the systemic barriers preventing women from serving in wider military roles. It also overlooked the small number of women did overcome those barriers and controbuted directly to the war effort close to the front lines in more diverse roles. The article also lack depth about the nursing work, home front organising, and anti-war activism. In mid-2024 I began expanding this article and related pages to reflect the diversity and significance of Australian women's involvement in the war.

Created Articles

• Mary Chomley – Australian charity worker, arts patron and feminist (1871-1960)
• Charlotte Crivelli – French Australian philanthropist (1863–1956)
• Amelia Hetherington – Australian philanthropist (1862-1939)
• Hôpital Australien de Paris – Military hospital in Auteuil, France, 1915
• Clara Barron – British Australian philanthropist (1857–1936)
• Edeline Strickland – British Australian philanthropist (1870–1918)
• Margaret Evelyn Stanley – British philanthropist (1875–1964)
• Elsie Goold-Adams – Canadian Australian philanthropist (1882–1952)
• Ettie Ellison-Macartney – British Australian philanthropist (1863–1938)
• Jeannie Gilruth – New Zealand Australian philanthropist (1876–1965)

Selected articles on this topic that I substantially edited

• Australian women in World War I
• Australian Army Nursing Service
• Ostrovo Unit – Field hospital of the Scottish Women's Hospital
• Laura Margaret Hope – Australian surgeon and missionary (1868-1952)

Radical Acts Project

• Helen Hart (suffragist) – British Australian suffragist, lecturer, and preacher (1839-1908)
• Victorian Women's Suffrage Petition – Petition presented to the Parliament of Victoria in 1891
• United Council for State Suffrage
• Australian Women's Suffrage Society
• National Council of Women of Victoria
• Women's suffrage in Victoria
• Women's Political Association of Victoria
• Elizabeth Rennick – British Australian suffragist (1833–1923)
• Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Victoria – Temperance organisation based in Australia
• Louisa Bevan – Australian charity worker (1844–1933)
• Victorian Women's Franchise League
• Annie Watson Lister – Australian suffragist and philanthropist (1866–1928)
• Lyceum Club (Melbourne) – Women's club in Melbourne
• Catalysts (club) – Women's club in Melbourne

Sportswomen

Other Articles

• Enid Lucy Robertson – Australian botanist and conservationist (1925-2016)
• Ada Driver – Australian Photographer (1868-1954)
• Margareta Webber – Australian Bookseller (1891-1983)
• Lucy Morice – Australian social reformer (1859-1951)
• Judith Fletcher – Australian Photographer (1886–1970)
• Ann Marian Fletcher – British Australian embroiderer (1851–1935)
• Louisa Caroline Gregory – Australian cricketer (1865–1903)

Articles I have substantially edited

I have made one or more edits to 496 existing articles. I have made substantial contribution (<50% at time of adding to this list) to these articles:

1. Anti-Franchise League
3. Victorian Women's Suffrage Society – Australian women's suffrage organisation
4. Western Australian Hall of Champions – Sports award honoring former athletes
7. Antoinette Kensel Thurgood – American philanthropist and editor (1842–1915)
8. Eva Hughes – Australian political activist
9. Annette Bear-Crawford – Australian suffragist and social reformer (1853–1899)
10. May Campbell (field hockey) – Australian field hockey player and coach (1915-1981)
11. Ada Norris – Australian women's rights activist and community worker
15. Elizabeth Tripp – Australian educator (1809–1899)